Quotes of: Painting Keyword

You know, face painting in non-Western cultures is a sign of collectivism, is a sign of one representing the community, it's not unique at all.

Joseph Jarman

I'm sick of the foodies who need every morsel that goes into their mouth to be a Picasso painting, a Giacometti sculpture, a Proust novel, evoking the world with each crumb.

Jessi Klein

I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.

Jack Levine

I do real paintings, you know. I'm a little messy in the studio, so I'm a bit of a danger. But I just adore it.

Jaron Lanier

I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously.

Jonathan Lethem

I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.

Andy Summers

All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It was the only thing I ever got right at school.

David Bailey

In terms of the pilot, you have to introduce a lot of characters in a very short period of time, and you have to paint with slightly broad brush strokes because you just need to give an audience an idea of who these people might be.

Jack Davenport

I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.

Jackson Pollock

The time that I devote to painting is not a lot of time, but I do it 100 percent while I am working, and then there's nothing else that counts.

Margrethe II of Denmark

Prison Guard: Your painting privileges have been removed. Doc: Why? Prison Guard: I don't know.

Escape from Alcatraz

Danny: Why do they always paint hallways that color? Rusty: They say taupe is very soothing.

Ocean's Eleven

Franz Liebkind: Hitler... there was a painter! He could paint an entire apartment in ONE afternoon! TWO coats!

The Producers

Gordon Gekko: [awed by the morning light] I've never seen a painting that captures the beauty of the ocean, at a moment like this.

Wall Street

Nick: Who did the painting? George: Some Greek with a moustache that Martha attacked one night.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Scientifically, information is a choice - a yes-or-no choice. In a broader sense, information is everything that informs our world - writing, painting, music, money.

James Gleick

I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it won't help you make a better painting.

Peter Doig

The day the producers aren't minting money, or the fans are done with me and, most of all, I as a person get bored of acting, I will stop and pursue my other interests. There is a lot to do: painting, writing, direction.

Salman Khan

Why are young adults so self-centered and always seeking instant gratification? Because older adults, often in positions of power, paint them that way.

Raymond Arroyo

When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. ...

J. G. Ballard

Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.

Vikram Seth